OpenAI is nothing without its people
Brad Lightcap
236 posts
- India is now our 2nd largest market after the US weekly ChatGPT users have grown 4x in the last year, and India is now top 10 for API devs later this year we’ll open an office in New Delhi, our first in India, to work more closely with Indian users, businesses, and partners!
- mira is an amazing leader and equally great friend. i couldn't have asked for a better partner these last 6+ years, and am so grateful for her contributions to openai. chief among those is the incredible technical team she's built, whose leadership will keep pushing the
I shared the following note with the OpenAI team today. - very crazy first week for images in chatgpt - over 130M users have generated 700M+ (!) images since last tuesday India is now our fastest growing chatgpt market 💪🇮🇳 the range of visual creativity has been extremely inspiring we appreciate your patience as we try to serve
- i love the openai team so much
- we are grateful to the more than 1 million business customers building with us openai.com/index/1-millio…
00:00 - chatgpt recently crossed 400M WAU, we feel very fortunate to serve 5% of the world every week 2M+ business users now use chatgpt at work, and reasoning model API use is up 5x since o3 mini launch we'll bring GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 to chat and the API soon, with unlimited GPT-5 forNew this AM: OpenAI tops 400 million users despite DeepSeek’s emergence The company saw 400M weekly active users, up 33% in less than three months, according to OpenAI’s chief operating officer @bradlightcap cnbc.com/2025/02/20/ope…
00:00- a 100-second look at how people are using chatgpt at work
00:00 - gpt-5 is much better at instruction following than previous models API users spending time optimizing their prompts are seeing better results, with some seeing significant improvement even from small changes we wrote up a prompting guide here:
- so much of work is what I like to call the “work around work” - switching between systems, chasing context, and stitching tools together to get things done company knowledge in chatgpt now does this for you it can reason across tools like slack, sharepoint, google drive,
00:00 - we're launching the openai pioneers program – a partnership between openai and companies building advanced ai products to (a) intensively fine-tune models that outperform at high value domain-specific tasks, and (b) build better real world evals that enable industries to betterAnnouncing @OpenAI Pioneers, a new program for ambitious companies building with our API. Selected teams will partner closely with us on domain-specific evals and custom fine-tuned models to advance AI product intelligence in their verticals. Apply to the first cohort below 👇
- we have surpassed 5M paying business users on chatgpt, up from 3M in june. we continue to see growth in every segment, from small startups and SMBs to fortune 500. we are working to make it easier for companies of any size to get to implementation and success quickly. a shift
- introducing openai grove: a program for early stage founders. grove builds on our existing work with openai for startups & pioneers, and includes 5 weeks of hands-on workshops, office hours, events with our team, and early access. apply here before 9/24:
